Category: Movie Reviews
REVIEW: Nosferatu (2024)
Sometimes, happenstance works out for the best. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu will be the last movie I see in theaters in 2024, and it’s a spectacular way to close out the year in film, if not particularly fitting. I say that because I think pretty much everyone will agree that these are not the bes...
Read MoreREVIEW: Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (2024)
robot_boob | Dec 19, 2024 | 0
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is a kids’ movie with an identity crisis. I had a vision of Santa Claus riding his sleigh with all those reindeer telling me so. It’s not a Christmas movie. It’s not an action movie. It’s not a comedy. It’s not a drama. It’s a kids’ movie. I had to keep …
REVIEW: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
I’ve been looking forward to The War of the Rohirrim since I first heard of it. The people behind the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy are involved, and this is just one animated movie, so I wasn’t worried about it becoming bloated or self-indulgent like the Hobbit movies. The animation looked sl...
Read MoreREVIEW: Kraven the Hunter (2024)
Kraven the Hunter isn’t a good movie, but it should bring with it a sense of relief. This is the last of Sony’s Spider-Verse that doesn’t have Spider-Man, a series of pointless films that feel like the definition of “product,” seemingly made to fill a release date in the hopes that people ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Moana 2 (2024)
One thing about me is that I love Disney movies most of the time. 2016’s Moana was exceptional even in the context of Disney movies, a particularly gorgeous, funny, and touching film, and the soundtrack rocks. Disney sequels make me nervous at the best of times, but Moana 2 started out as a TV ser...
Read MoreREVIEW: Wicked: Part One (2024)
Wicked: Part One is an adaptation of the first act of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s 2003 stage musical, which is, for its part, based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire’s novel is a revisionist take on Frank L. Baum’s O...
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